passionately Copy link Outline I. With passionate ardourII. With anger • passionately: I. With passionate ardour: Phr.: to be p. in love, amore ardere, Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 27: also without amore, and foll. by in and abl. of object, or acc.: the god fell p. in love with her, deus arsit in illa, Ov. M. 8, 50: for direct acc. see Virg. E. 2, 1: also, deperire amore alicujus (lit. to be dying with love for any one), Liv. 27, 15, med.: likewise foll. by in and abl.: Curt. 8, 6; or direct acc., Pl.: also, effuse amare (not of sexual love), Plin. 6, 26, 2: I am p. desirous of seeing your fathers, efferor studio patres vestros videndi, Cic. Sen. 23, 83: p. devoted to every kind of learning, summe omnium doctrinarum studiosus, Cic. Fam. 4, 3, fin.: he was p. fond of play, aleam studiosissime lusit, Suet. Cl. 33: to be p. bent on doing something, gestire aliquid facere (v. to long): see also eagerly, earnestly, fervently. II. With anger: īrācundē: v. angrily.